News & Events
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Visiting Professor David Winter, University of Hertfordshire, gave a hugely successful Brotherton Lecture on October 28. Entitled “Shaking Hands with a Serial Killer”, the lecture attracted an audience of over 300 and significant media attention. The lecture will be aired on the Sky APAC Channel and a related article in The Age is forthcoming. Click here for audio and screen capture of the lecture, or here to download the video
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Congratulations to Professor Mark Creamer for an outstandingly successful Alice Barber Lecture. Held on October 6, Professor Creamer’s lecture “Psychological Recovery From Trauma: Battlefields to Bushfires” was enjoyed by an audience of nearly 200, including members of the University community, psychology discipline, local community services and the general public. The lecture itself provided valuable insights into Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, its causes, diagnosis and treatment, and was followed by a lively and informative Q and A session. Click here for audio of the lecture: Alice Barber Lecture 2009
- Michael Saling and Nicholas Allen have been promoted to Professor with effect from 1 January 2010.
- Professor Pip Pattison has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). In this role she will chair the Melbourne Model Committee, which has academic oversight of the University's New Generation degrees.
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Professor Henry Jackson published the second edition of “The Recognition and Management of Early
Psychosis: A Preventive Approach” (Cambridge University Press) with Professor Patrick McGorry of the Department of Psychiatry and ORYGEN. The new edition of this popular and influential book presents a stage-specific model of the clinical and biological factors associated with risk for and development of psychotic illness, and discusses the best treatments available for each stage. The book offers practitioners and researchers concrete guidance in appropriate management strategies for treatment and prevention. - Dr Sarah Wilson has been promoted to Associate Professor and Reader with effect from 1 January 2009.
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Dr Eoin Killackey won the Schering-Plough Organon Award from the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research in late 2008. The award is “intended for ASPR researchers whose work is beginning to make a significant impact on the national and international scene, reflecting either scientific excellence or public impact (or both) - the “rising stars” in mental health research”. Eoin is also the successful recipient of the Ronald Phillip Griffith Fellowship which is a MDHS Faculty Fellowship for research relevant to elucidation of the causes and alleviation of schizophrenia.
Congratulations to our successful NHMRC grant winners:
- Olivia Carter has won a Career Development Grant ($377k) for Using psychopharmacology and genetics to explore the role of the serotonergic system in perception and attention.
- Peter Anderson has won a Senior Research Fellowship and is also a named investigator on a successful grant submitted through the University of Adelaide.
- Rob Hester has won a $249k project grant with Murat Ycel and Daniel Lubman for Neurocognitive studies of reward sensitivity in opiate addiction and its influence on addiction-related behaviour.
- Henry Jackson and John Gleeson have won a ($682k) project grant with Andrew Channen and Susan Cotton for Early intervention for borderline personality disorder in youth: a randomised controlled trial.
Congratulations to the following staff for their success in obtaining ARC Discovery Projects :
- Prof M Olekalns; Prof PL Smith in "Currencies of Exchange: Social Utility Functions and Strategic Decisions in Negotiation"
- Prof Y Kashima; Dr SM Laham; Prof Nick Haslam; Prof EA Sonenberg; A/Prof F Dignum for "Implicit transmission of embodied culture"
- A/Prof NB Allen; Dr S Whittle; Dr MB Yap; Dr LB Sheeber; Dr DL Foley; Dr P Dudgeon; Dr AM Chanen; Prof C Pantelis in "Genes, neuroanatomy and family process: Predicting adolescent anxiety and depression"
- Dr RL Hester for "Neural and cognitive studies of reward sensitivity and its influence on addiction-related behaviour".
- Cheryl Dissanayake, Edith Bavin, Margot Prior and Evan Kidd in "Language processing in children with high functioning autism: Evidence from eye tracking"
- Prof M Olekalns; Prof PL Smith in "Currencies of Exchange: Social Utility Functions and Strategic Decisions in Negotiation" ($220,000 over three years)
- Prof Y Kashima; Dr SM Laham; Prof Nick Haslam; Prof EA Sonenberg; A/Prof F Dignum for "Implicit transmission of embodied culture" ($347,000 over three years)
- A/Prof NB Allen; Dr S Whittle; Dr MB Yap; Dr LB Sheeber; Dr DL Foley; Dr P Dudgeon; Dr AM Chanen; Prof C Pantelis in "Genes, neuroanatomy and family process: Predicting adolescent anxiety and depression" ($379,400 over four years)
- Dr RL Hester for "Neural and cognitive studies of reward sensitivity and its influence on addiction-related behaviour" ($120,000 over three years)
- Cheryl Dissanayake, Edith Bavin, Margot Prior and Evan Kidd for "Language processing in children with high functioning autism: Evidence from eye tracking" ($150,000 over 3 yrs)
Congratulations to all the following staff for their success in obtaining research grants in 2008:
Commencing in 2009
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Prof Pip Pattison; A/P Garry Robins; Dr E McBryde; A/Prof M Hellard have obtained an ARC grant of $550,000 (2009- 2012) for their project on "The structure and dynamics of social contact for human disease transmission models".
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A/Prof Mike Nicholls and Prof JL Bradshaw have obtained an ARC grant of $327,500 (2009- 2012) for their project on "Left of centre: Attentional distortions in the mental representation of space in healthy and clinical populations".
- Prof Margot Prior with colleagues have obtained an ARC grant of $334,000 (2009- 2011) for the project: "Stuttering in childhood: Patterns of recovery and persistence"
- Prof John Trinder and Amy Jordan have won an NHMRC grant for their research entitled: "The Influence of Sleep on Upper Airway Muscles"
- Dr Sarah Wilson and partners have won an NHMRC grant for their project "Clinical Presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Families"
- A/P Mary Ainley has successfully obtained a $12,000 Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Melbourne. The award will be used to host an extended visit to the University of Melbourne by Professor Robert Coplan, a distinguished developmental psychologist.
- A/P John Gleeson and colleagues have won another grant from the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. The grant is for Phase 2 of "Bibliotherapy for primary caregivers of family members with first-episode psychosis: A randomised controlled trial."